It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

Things can change in a day.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.